Beginning with a Group 2 placing in Dubai in the early hours and culminating in a stakes win and a Group 2 second at Rosehill later in the afternoon, Saturday’s racing highlights were another fillip for the farm heading towards the upcoming NZB National Yearling Sale at Karaka.
A Group 2 runner-up and multiple listed place getter in Australia, the depth of the Australian sprinting ranks was shown to good effect when Parsifal (Darci Brahma – Della Lobra by Stravinsky) stepped up to international company when running 3rd in the 1000m Group 2 Blue Point Stakes in Dubai. Bred by the Block Partnership and purchased from LA’s 2016 Karaka Book 1 draft by Paul Moroney for $140,000, Parsifal, whose stakes earnings are Australian $500,000, is a full brother to The Buzz, who has won 6 races for Moira Murdoch.
Promising middle-distance performer Mightybeel (Savabeel-Super Power by Alamosa) recorded his 2nd stakes success in his last three starts when he ran out a comfortable winner of the Listed 1900m Parramatta Cup at Rosehill. Bred by Jim Barlow, who has two half-brothers by Time Test waiting in the wings, Mightybeel was a $200,000 purchase by Go Racing from LA’s 2019 Karaka Book 1 draft.
And while the LA bred mare Belluci Babe (Per Incanto-Savamour by Savabeel) narrowly missed delivering the farm a notable Rosehill stakes double, the five-year-old daughter of Per Incanto unquestionably added to her already considerable broodmare value with another Sydney Group placing, this time in the Group 2 1300m Millie Fox Stakes.
Parsifal’s Group 2 placing makes the 17th individual stakes performer to come off the farm since January last year.
